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NOTDilbert
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....And so is everyone else that has ever been. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130722.html
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"History doesn't repeat itself, but it DOES rhyme" - Mark Twain
"Always. Expect. Ninjas." - Syndey Scoville
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MerchManDan
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Ah yes, I saw that on FB earlier. It answers a question that's been bugging me for some years, ever since I read Saturn Rukh by Robert L. Forward. In that novel, the rukh (flying creatures about 4 kilometers across) call them - technically, us - "Mother-and-Child."
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." - Nim the chimp
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scantrontb
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AWEsome book!MerchManDan wrote:Saturn Rukh by Robert L. Forward
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It also reminds me of Asimov's "The Missing Item" (1977)--in which from Mars there are three morning or evening stars--but the creator of a cult forgot that the Earth actually has a companion planet . . . and so is never unaccompanied in the sky.